Bug#626346: Munin-Node needs to be restarted after perl-upgrade

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:37:05AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi Cord,
> 
> thanks for your bugreport!
> 
> (full quote for the benefit of the perl maintainers.)
> 
> On Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2011, Cord Beermann wrote:
> > Package: munin-node
> > Version: 1.4.5-3
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > This is not a real bug, but it is a big issue, caused by the perl 5.10 -->
> > 5.12 Upgrade.
> > 
> > As this package is affected i file it here, but maybe it should be shifted
> > towards some perl-package.
> > 
> > After the Upgrade from perl 5.10 to 5.12 Munin-Node is still running using
> > perl 5.10. Munin-Node tries to use Carp/Heavy.pm, but can'T find it
> > anymore.
> > 
> > 2011/05/11-06:30:02 [31055]     2011/05/11-06:30:02 [31464] Can't locate
> > Carp/Heavy.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1
> > /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5
> > /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at
> > /usr/share/perl/5.10/Carp.pm line 39, <STDIN> line 3.\n   ...propagated at
> > /usr/share/perl5/Munin/Common/Timeout.pm line 66, <STDIN> line 3.
> > 
> > after a restart of munin-node all is fine again. But without restart
> > munin-node doesn'T deliver any data.
> > 
> > perl should have some restart mechanism like the glibc-Package.
> 
> probably. I'm thus tempted to reassign this bug to perl... feedback/ideas very 
> welcome!

Actually, it does; it's just not been well publicised yet. I would
be very glad to see more use and testing of this facility.

See <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619275> for
details.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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